Thomas Todd

Birth Date

1820-12-20

Death Date

1909-04-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and politician. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of Charles S. Todd and Letitia Shelby Todd. Married to Jane Smith Todd on January 14, 1841. Father of Charles S. Todd and Henry S. Todd. Married to Susie H. Jacobs Todd in 1851. Married to Elizabeth D. Bonney Todd in 1860. Father of Katherine S. Todd, C. D. Bonney Todd, Bessie V. Todd, Charles S. Todd, and Letitia S. Todd. Captain in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) in the Mexican-American War in 1847. Member of the Masonic Order in Kentucky from 1842 to 1909. Farmer in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 59.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 27.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelby County, Precinct 1, p. 1.
E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1501-03.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 709.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henry County Marriages, Film #000259288.
Find A Grave, "Capt Thomas Steward Todd (1820- 1909)," Memorial #81020374, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81020374 (accessed August 2, 2018).

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